Virginia’s longest running MMA and Muay Thai fight series returned to GFL as Combat Sports Challenge (CSC) presented CSC 35 at the Crowne Plaza – Richmond West in Richmond, Virginia. The event featured 11 kickboxing bouts in the professional and amateur ranks, highlighted by a main event for the WKA US K-1 Rules Title.

With one punch, Roy Nelson put Cheick Kongo to the knees, and with one more punch Nelson knocked Kongo out. Nelson, the pudgy, short (for a HW), bearded striker with an iron chin then called out the winner of UFC 160 — Cain Velasquez vs. Bigfoot Silva II — and you know what?

After all the talk, all the hype, finally, Michael “The Count” Bisping” and Alan “The Talent” Belcher threw down in the Octagon. I picked Belcher to win this fight, but Bisping showed why he is one of the best in the MW division by out-working and out-striking Belcher. Quite frankly, Belcher looked like

Jon “Bones” Jones proved why he is a dominant champion and one of the best in the world today when he dispatched challenger Chael Sonnen late in the first round. Similar to the way many thought Sonnen would fight, Jones took the fight to Sonnen, taking him down and crushing him with elbows.

UFC 159 was marred by a series of bizarre occurrences — Gian Villante vs. Ovince St. Preux ended in an eye poke, as did Michael Bisping vs. Alan Belcher. There was also an eye poke in Vinny Magalhaes vs. Phil Davis. Rustam Khabilov vs. Yancy Medeiros ended when Medeiros dislocated his thumb, and